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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
6/10
Another horror that brings a group of youngsters to our screen once again and there's a major chance that we will never see them in a meaningly leading role again. I'm such a downer but usually, it's true, especially when a movie looks like it could be terrible. From the trailer that I saw, the movie actually looked interesting. There were a few creatures on monsters in this movie that got me intrigued down to the fact that the usual villain wasn't terrorising these kids. The movie is based on a children's book so how scary can it actually be?
The movie is set in the '60s as a group of friends run from a bully and end up in an abandoned house and find a secret room that holds some books. One of the books is taken by a horror enthusiast as it has the potential to be a good read. The house was owned by the Bellows' family and they used to have a decent standing within the community. Our characters end up being part of the story and one by one they start disappearing in grisly ways. Each one is getting written into the book at the time of it all happening aswell. As they are being read, the remaining characters are trying to think of ways to save the others but they were always a little turn late. They end up working it out and taking it back to the hidden room that they found the book in. The book was written by one fo the abused Bellows children and her ghost is going to be ending this. The horror lover wants to help her tell her story of abuse so agrees to write about it if the ghost stops the killings. Game over. And now it's time to find a way to bring their friends back from their own deaths.
OK, where do we start? If you just want a random horror movie that doesn't follow the normal convention of the horrors then you may have found one. It had a quite interesting concept to follow by as the stories within the book took people's lives in the way they were written. It may well have been a silly concept but it also felt refreshing at the same time, rather than just some masked guy with a knife chasing down some teens. The end did lead the way for some sort of sequel and I'm unsure whether there is another book but in truth, this was far from a strong opening that would fill a studio that a sequel would be a money-spinner.
The cast was alright at best. I recognised one from the movie Fist Fight with Charlie Day and even in that, he was not a pivotal role in any way. The best characters for me were definitely the monsters and creeps. Each one really did have their own characteristics and scariness about them. The CGI did look a bit outdated and stretched to make the desired impact now and again but it still worked for each of these storytime monsters. I actually found myself wanting to see more of them than the actual human characters but I don't know if that says something about me or not.
Horrors will always have a special place in my heart and more so if they are something that I haven't seen before. I don't know if this is some kind of Death Note 'esque' storyline as I have not seen it and it did feel along the lines of an extended 'Goosebumps' or 'Are you Afraid of the Dark?' episode and that was kind of a good thing. The movie won't get great marks and that includes from me but it was exactly what it said on the tin, although the stories weren't incredibly scary.
The movie is set in the '60s as a group of friends run from a bully and end up in an abandoned house and find a secret room that holds some books. One of the books is taken by a horror enthusiast as it has the potential to be a good read. The house was owned by the Bellows' family and they used to have a decent standing within the community. Our characters end up being part of the story and one by one they start disappearing in grisly ways. Each one is getting written into the book at the time of it all happening aswell. As they are being read, the remaining characters are trying to think of ways to save the others but they were always a little turn late. They end up working it out and taking it back to the hidden room that they found the book in. The book was written by one fo the abused Bellows children and her ghost is going to be ending this. The horror lover wants to help her tell her story of abuse so agrees to write about it if the ghost stops the killings. Game over. And now it's time to find a way to bring their friends back from their own deaths.
OK, where do we start? If you just want a random horror movie that doesn't follow the normal convention of the horrors then you may have found one. It had a quite interesting concept to follow by as the stories within the book took people's lives in the way they were written. It may well have been a silly concept but it also felt refreshing at the same time, rather than just some masked guy with a knife chasing down some teens. The end did lead the way for some sort of sequel and I'm unsure whether there is another book but in truth, this was far from a strong opening that would fill a studio that a sequel would be a money-spinner.
The cast was alright at best. I recognised one from the movie Fist Fight with Charlie Day and even in that, he was not a pivotal role in any way. The best characters for me were definitely the monsters and creeps. Each one really did have their own characteristics and scariness about them. The CGI did look a bit outdated and stretched to make the desired impact now and again but it still worked for each of these storytime monsters. I actually found myself wanting to see more of them than the actual human characters but I don't know if that says something about me or not.
Horrors will always have a special place in my heart and more so if they are something that I haven't seen before. I don't know if this is some kind of Death Note 'esque' storyline as I have not seen it and it did feel along the lines of an extended 'Goosebumps' or 'Are you Afraid of the Dark?' episode and that was kind of a good thing. The movie won't get great marks and that includes from me but it was exactly what it said on the tin, although the stories weren't incredibly scary.
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